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Textual Features | May Kendall | Kendall and Lang use the genre of social satire to introduce significant debates between science and the supernatural, of a kind which recur throughout her poetry. These debates are often staged between men and creatures... |
Textual Features | Antoinette Brown Blackwell | ABB
opposes Clarke's argument, and also criticizes Charles Darwin
's and Herbert Spencer
's understanding of the roles of the sexes. She uses the scientific method here, writing in the style of her male contemporaries... |
Textual Features | George Eliot | While there can be no doubt that Dorothea is the heroine of Middlemarch, it is one of the book's major strengths to subsume even the most intensely particular individual life into collective life. The... |
Textual Features | Agnes Maule Machar | In this novel and in one which followed the next year, Lost and Won, AMM
voiced disapproval of novel-reading and its potentially corrupting influence. She preferred an improving tone for fiction and criticized a... |
Textual Features | Mary Somerville | Replete with nearly two hundred illustrations, On Molecular and Microscopic Science is divided into three sections: Atoms and Molecules of Matter, Vegetable Organisms, and Animal Organisms. The text considers the molecular makeup of matter and... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | The poem burlesqued social conservatism in the accents of a reform Darwin
ist through the resolution of a prehistoric Eohippus to become a horse (evolution converting his middle finger-nail into a hoof), and of an... |
Textual Features | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | It follows protagonist John Robertson after he awakens from a thirty-year bout of amnesia in 1940. John quickly learns that much has changed in America (particularly the New York City area) since 1910. The... |
Textual Features | Jane Hume Clapperton | Her almost innumerable sources include Charles Darwin
, Herbert Spencer
, Thomas Malthus
, Thomas Huxley
, Francis Galton
, Edward Carpenter
, John A. Hobson
, and Sidney Webb
. She was also inspired... |
Textual Features | Virginia Woolf | Several critics have observed the influence of Joseph Conrad
in The Voyage Out: in Heart of Darkness (published in 1899) the voyage into the unknown represents a dark and unspeakable self-discovery. The structure of... |
Textual Features | Sarah Grand | The Heavenly Twins, SG
's most famous novel, treats a variety of social and gender issues, including female sexuality, unhappy marriages, women's social roles, the sexual double standard, and venereal disease. Ideala, heroine of... |
Textual Production | Dorothy Richardson | In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich
through Jane Austen
, Emily
and Charlotte Brontë
, George Eliot |
Textual Production | Timberlake Wertenbaker | TW
's play After Darwin, exploring the conflict between naturalist Charles Darwin
and ship's captain Robert Fitzroy
, was produced at Hampstead Theatre
, in London. Morley, Sheridan. “Summer School Is in Session: ’After Darwin’”. International Herald Tribune, 15 July 1998. 1 |
Textual Production | Dorothy Wellesley | DW
's prose works included a discursive and elusive autobiography, and a biography: Sir George Goldie
, Founder of Nigeria, A Memoir. This was, she said, a record of her conversations with Goldie... |
Textual Production | Florence Dixie | She dedicated it on 24 July To the late Charles Darwin
, Esq. . . . by one who was honoured with his friendship, and to whom his works have ever been a source of... |
Textual Production | Ruth Padel | RP
published a poetry volume entitled Darwin
: A Life in Poems. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
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